Xavier Leroux 1863 – 1919

Biography

Xavier Leroux was born on October 11, 1863, in Velletri, beginning a life that would be devoted to musical composition. Though born abroad, he would become known as a French composer, contributing to the rich artistic heritage of his adopted nation during a transformative period in European music.

Throughout his career, Leroux devoted himself to the craft of composition, working during an era of significant musical innovation and change. His professional life spanned the latter decades of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, a time when French musical traditions were evolving and expanding in new directions.

Xavier Leroux passed away on February 2, 1919, in Paris, at the age of fifty-five. His remains were interred at the Grave of Leroux in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, where he was laid to rest in the city that had become the center of his artistic life. Though his final years coincided with the tumultuous period of World War I, his legacy as a composer endured, remembered among those who cherished French musical contributions of his time.